Edna2 needs the [beets](http://beets.radbox.org/) music manager to be installed
before it can work. Edna2 is essentially a beets plugin (that’s exactly what it
is actually). After installing beets, you will also need to have beets catalog
your music library so edna2 can stream it for you. View the beets docs for how
to do that.

The key feature of edna2 is the autosearch bar located in the upper left hand
corner. Just type and your library will be automatically searched for terms.
Then just click a song and it will start playing. Subsequent songs can be added
to your current queue with a click and clicking any song in the queue will start
playing it.

Currently edna2 only supports playing individual songs from your library, but
this is VERY early in the development. Soon, clicking on an album or an artist
will add all songs by that artist or from that album to your queue.

## What is edna2 using

Edna2 is using jQuery, flask, beets (duh), and audiojs. It’s based heavily on
the web plugin for beets, so if you see similarities in the servers, that’s why.

## Why edna2

edna2 is inspired by the original [edna](http://edna.sourceforge.net/). Edna is
an impressive piece of software. I enjoyed the time I spent using it, but it’s
from 2006 and no longer updated. Since edna was my inspiration for creating
this new music server, I’m dubbing it edna2.